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Re: Neat site: Advogato
From:
Russ Allbery
Date:
April 4, 2000 15:20
Subject:
Re: Neat site: Advogato
Message ID:
ylr9clmrue.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu
Chip Salzenberg <chip@valinux.com> writes:
> According to John Tobey:
>> I bet a "cvs mv" that I wouldn't be ashamed of could be implemented
>> in 50 lines of Perl. (is that what you meant?)
> I think so. I'd like to see it, actually. And if it copes properly
> with the target directory not yet existing, bonus points.
This is a topic of regular and very heated discussion on info-cvs, just so
that you're warned. It's rather difficult to come up with good semantics
for file moves that don't have various drawbacks.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>